When she heard that Moore was each an expert ballet dancer and an astrophysicist with a eager curiosity in robotics, she felt there was an ideal match. “We both thought this would be an amazing opportunity to explore these interactions and movements further,” says the Norwegian designer who first loaned Merritt Moore the company’s personal UR5e robotic after which by a UR distributor helped her borrow the bigger UR10e robotic with extra attain.
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“I was hooked,” says Merritt. “On weekends, after rehearsals and in between shows, I would work with the robot exploring movement.” Her work caught the curiosity of the brand new ArtLab at Harvard University in Boston that invited her to be one in all their first artists-in-residence to discover this analysis additional.
“This was right before lockdown in Jan-Feb 2020. When the lockdown happened, I did think ‘hmm interesting that I was just working with robots. Who knew that a robot could be my only potential dance partner for a very long time?’ And here we are,” she says.